Myanmar's 60 million people are Muslim
slingshots and machetes launched repeated attacks on Muslim Louis Vuitton mini linvillagers from Sunday, burning down dozens of homes, witnesses said.rns on flowing and fitted dresses in dark to light hues, gave way to humorous touches such as large "portfolio" bags, painted Chanel handbag logos, and a rucksack with large wooden brushes poking out. But the true artistry in this collection came in the form of numerous designs that played subtly on the styles of Scottish bagpipers — showing the depth of Lagerfeld's constant evolution. Perhaps channeling Chanel's acclaimed Arts and Crafts show in Edinburgh last December, the designer used the black-and-white spats of Scottish pipers to inspire great stocking shoes. a prominent 969 monk called Wirathu, who once described mosques as "enemy bases". "After that, we had to be very careful in the village and not bump into Buddhists or make them angry," said Myint Aung, one of scores of Muslim residents of Tha Phyu Chai village huddled near one of the few homes left standing.
Wirathu's admirers include Sann Sint, minister of religious affairs, who told Louis Vuitton monogram multicolore Reuters in June the monk only promoted "love and understanding between religions". President Thein Sein has called Wirathu "a son of Lord Buddha" and said 969 "is just a symbol of peace". About five percent of Myanmar's 60 million people are Muslim, according to government estimates. About a million more are Rohingya Muslims, mostly stateless and living in northern Rakhine State. Elsewhere, he crossed traditional Chanel skirt suits with a frayed tartan pattern, and many of the looks sported cape silhouettes as worn by pipers. Even the diagonal crossover of tartan fabric that Scots band across their chests was evoked when Lagerfeld dropped the collar off one shoulder. Sectarian violence in Myanma
r has killed at least 240 people and displaced 140,000, most of them Muslims, since June 2012. The latest bloodshed in Thandwe shows Myanmar's reformist government struggling to curb the spread of a Buddhist nationalist movement known as 969 and control members of an ethnic Rakhine political party implicated in violence. The 969 movement is led by firebrand monks whoLouis Vuitton monogram bag preach that Islam is a threat and urge supporters to shun interfaith marriage and boycott Muslim-run businesses. The numbers symbolise the Buddha, his teachings and the monkhood. Many anti-Muslim attacks have taken place where monks have preached the 969 creed but the violence had ebbed in recent weeks until the Thandwe attacks.